Manga like Akuma to Love Song

Oboreru Knife

Also known as Drowning Love.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

"I don't know what this feeling is … I don't know what I should do now … all I know is, I want him." They fight one another, they chase after one another, they capture one another—a turbulent tale of preteens on the brink of self-destruction, masterfully brought to life by George Asakura!

Tags: Shoujo , Gods , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Psychosexual , Rural , Fashion , Mythology , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Photography , School , Crime , Gangs , Coastal , Acting , Delinquents , Suicide

Tenshi Nanka Janai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In a rainy spring day, first year high schooler Midori Saezima saw a tall, handsome fellow student took care of a stray kitten. Without knowing the boy's name, she fell in love with him at the first sight. Due to sickness, Midori returned to school three days after summer vacation -- only to find out that she was "volunteered" as a candidate for student council. After a series of embarrassing accidents, both she and the mysterious boy she had a crush on, Akira Sudo, were elected as members of the student council. Being the first student council of this newly established high school, they are about to create "new traditions" for their school and a bittersweet love story for themselves...



Tags: Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School Club , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Motorcycles

NANA

Also known as Nana.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.

Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 rock'n'roll superstar.

This is the story of two 20-year-old women who share the same name. Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, they somehow meet and become best friends. The world of Nana is a world exploding with sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties.



Note: Winner of the 48th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shoujo Category in 2002.

Tags: Band , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Tragedy , Philosophy , Time Skip , Pregnancy , Found Family , Netorare , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Achronological Order , Urban , Rock Music , Age Gap , Nudity , Drugs , Bar , Cheating

Yojouhan no Ibara-hime

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Shinra Kobayashi is a poor girl with no parents or friends to rely on. She has given up on high school life, believing that love and youth to be unaffordable luxuries, but her life begins to change when three boys appear on the scene.

Tags: Shoujo , Male Harem , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast

Nanairo Kakumei

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Ever since primary school, Nana has never been able to refuse the wishes of her friend, Yuyu, even if they were unpleasant things like matching outfits and hairstyles... She wanted to change herself!

A story about real friendship and sympathy.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Shoujo , School , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast

Onii-sama e...

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

A classic manga about girls at a private all-girls school. The storyline centers around the experiences of Nanako, a "normal" girl who is invited to join the prestigious school organization, the Sorority, and is resented by all the other students because she doesn't appear to be qualified. Other key characters are Nanako's two friends: Tomoko, her friend since childhood who is alienated by Nanako's decision to try to join the Sorority, and Mariko, a strange, obsessive girl who is invited to join the Sorority along with Nanako; her "older brother," Henmi, who she corresponds with by mail; and the "Three Magnificent Ones," all of whom are admired and quasi-worshipped by the rest of the student body: the head of the Sorority, Miya-sama, the haunted, pill-popping rebel, Saint Juste, and the star athlete with a mysterious disease who doesn't like the Sorority, Kaoru-no-kimi.



Included one-shots:
Volume 2: Summer in Canterbury (ゆれる早春)
Volume 3: Early Spring Trembling (カンタベリーの夏)

Tags: School , Shoujo , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School Club , Tragedy , Drugs , Tomboy , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Ojou-sama , Suicide , Yuri , Disability , Estranged Family , Age Gap , Love Triangle , LGBTQ+ Themes , Basketball

Nanoka no Kare

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

When Nanoka was in middle school, she got her first confession. Feeling that the boy really liked her, she started dating him. Only to find out later that he only used her to show off in front of his friends. Betrayed, Nanoka is now in high school and hesitates getting into another relationship.

Though a chance encounter with a stranger's breakup in a fast food restaurant soon changes her mind. Both her and the stranger were betrayed in their first relationships...and this brings up a different feeling in her heart. After seeing the stranger again in the streets, she makes her first confession with him. Only to find out that they are from two different worlds.



Includes five bonus chapters.

Tags: Shoujo , School , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Tragedy